Lacock
Friday
My dear Henry.
I send you the plan of the House Grounds &c for Mr Porter <1> & seriously hope it may tempt him.
Cattle <2> came to me this morning for money to pay his Journey Home - I told him he ought to have applied to you when you were here - that I could not & thought you would not do any thing about it but that if he pleased he might go to Mr Awdry <3> & desire him to write to you, or get anyone else to write for him - &c &c
on consideration however I think that as in the case of any other servant discharged for no Fault, you would pay his Journey, to [illegible] the place where you paid him - so in his, particularly as he made no charge for coming, (that I know of) it would be but fair to give something - If you in your Answer to Awdry therefore will direct him to give 2£ I will pay one of them -
Did you intend immediate possession of Cattles Cottage to be given to Fitzsimmons? <4> - if so the sooner he gets his wife out of M[archants] Lodge <5> the better - nothing has been said by me or your Mother <6> to Fitz: one way or the other [illegible] <7>
Yrs aff
C. F.
W. H. F. Talbot Esq
Notes:
1. Charles Porter (1797-1877), fellow Cambridge student with WHFT and clergyman.
2. Probably Charles Cattle. [See Doc. No: 02338].
3. William Henry Awdry (1778-1847), solicitor, Chippenham. [See Doc. No: 02338].
4. Cornelius Fitzsimmons, Scottish gardener at Lacock Abbey.
5. See Doc. No: 02983.
6. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773-1846), WHFT's mother.
7. Text torn away under seal.
8. Franklin, servant.
9. There is no enclosure, postscript written on the address panel.